[Report 1961] / Medical Officer of Health, Canterbury Borough / City & County.

  • Canterbury (England). City & County Council.
Date:
1961
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Credit: [Report 1961] / Medical Officer of Health, Canterbury Borough / City & County. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Mr. Alvin Pryor, L.D.S., moved to Exeter as Principal Dental Officer and his place has been taken by Mr. P. B. Taylor, L.D.S., who brings much experience with him to the post. Miss A. Grey, SR.N., H.V.Cert., was appointed to succeed Miss Maguire as Senior Health Visitor/School Nurse. HOME HEALTH SERVICES Care of Mothers and Young Children. Four clinics are provided, one central and three outlying. Child Welfare Sessions are held at each, but antenatal sessions, and special immunisation sessions, are only held at the Central Clinic. An ante-natal clinic for mothers booked for Shorncliffe Military Families’ Hospital was held at the Barracks but during 1962 this has been abandoned and such cases attend for continua- tion ante-natal supervision at the Central Clinic with interchange of records with the medical officer at the Shorncliffe Hospital through a personal progress record held by the mother and brought to each examination. The Women’s Voluntary Service has taken over the sale of Welfare Foods at all branch clinics, and these ladies as well as individual voluntary workers help with records and baby weighing at all clinis to leave the Health Visitors free to talk with the mothers. The Ante-Natal Clinic is staffed by the domiciliary midwives while the Relaxation and Mothercraft Clinic is run by the health visitors and physiotherapist. Pupil midwives attend each and also the child welfare clinics. Ante-Natal Clinic Sessions (Central Clinic and Barracks) Mothers in attendance on 1.1.61 ... First attendances during 1961 Blood tests carried out Total attendances 1961 Post-Natal examinations Mothers still in attendance 31.12.61 Relaxation Classes, etc. Mothers in attendance during 1961 Attendances made 90 52 176 152 467 21 44 93 594 Ante-Natal Clinics (including Post-Natal). Wednesdays, 2.30 p.m.. Central Clinic, Stour Street : This clinic also deals with blood tests, poliomyelitis vacci- nation for expectant mothers, and routine chest X-rays. Also Barracks M.I. Room (for wives of military personnal booked for the Military Families Hospital, Shorn- cliffe) on Monday afternoons.